When I do reverse reverbs, I reverse the vocal than slap a reverb on it and render it then reverse it back so it leads into the word, this works as well!
Lil alter boy, melodyne harmonies, microshift, eq filtering, vocal synth 2 and saturation are some of my favourite tools for vocal ear candy, adding depth and width to accentuate vocal lines and add interest and texture! Love the stutter tip, i usually use a delay in itself, but this i feel has more control, will definitely try it out in the next session, also what a great integration of tape stop built-in in a fade, seems like a logic..al thing to do, Ableton take notes..
you work fast as hell man. it'd take me at least 20X the time you did all that and then some. I can't tell if i'm a slow worker or you just have that much more experience than me.
Interesting, I saw this Ear Candy thing on a post yesterday and bang here's his Sean Videos on how to achieve it in a mix. How wonderful that is, Thanks Sean.
This really awesome 👏..Thumps up from Africa, Ghana and I will be glad if you could teach about how you used the reverb and delay on this song..Thanks 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Chopped vocal panning. I've not done that before. That was dope. This reminds me of BT's Hip Hop Phenomenon ( at 4:13) if anyone hasn't heard that yet.
SEAn the reverse reverb trick instead of doing bouncea nd having to press wav add to project and then naming it and bounce it... theres is an option in the menu when u right click the clip u want to bounce that is BOUNCE IN PLACE (CTRL + B) on mac which will automatically bounce it in the project all you have to do is uncheck the box where it says bypass plugin effects, if it is checked
Awesome tricks! Could you do a video of how to eq/mix terribly recorded vocals? Sometimes clients tend to send awful recordings that they don't wish to re record . Would be great to see your approach for this type of scenario
Hey Sean, how you doing? Congratulations on your work, I appreciate everything you do. Could you make something clear for me? I have seen your videos and I still have the same trouble. When I'm mixing instruments and drums I have a bus for the instruments and another for the drums, what should I set on that bus? I use compressors in each specific channel but I never know what to set on that bus for the drums (for example) to glue them together. Thank you in advance, Regards, Skyc
hey Sky, why do you feel the need to use a bus compressor on the instruments / drums all the time? Not saying there's anything inherently wrong with this, although I wouldn't rely on it. Personally, not a big fan of bus compression on drums unless it's the right context, especially in the modern styles. It tends to kill the dynamics and punch.
@@SeanDivine Hey Sean, thank you for your reply! Everything I know about mixing I learned from you and I really thought that you used a bus for drums and another one for instruments, to give them more "power" when put together. The best way is it to use them separately when we think it's necessary? Regards
@@SkyC4600 I am not to far into it but a big one in my Opinion is you have to know where it is neceserry to compress and where it is not. My Approach is to not go with compression unless i feel it would be absolutly neceserry. Usually Vocals and Real Bass Guitars are likely to need it but an indicator is if your fader position for Leveling does not seem to work out, and your changing it constantly than you likely have found a track that could benefit of compression. I find myself often doing things that i think are appropriate (like not boosting low frequenzy content, or the tape saturation on everything phase) but it probably is a good idea to think twice about doing Stuff that you think you are supposed to do because somebody told you that you are supposed to do it. Do not give up on Advice but try to look for new input constantly, and if you are like me and you do not have to work for clients than use this freedome to change things up sometimes and to experiment with new Ideas to see if they are beneficial. Than after a (long&lovely&never ending) while you can go for cherry picking combining the nicest ideas you have found.
Hi Sean, again great advice in this vid!! I make beats and record vocals also in logic. Seeing this vid I'm considering to bounce a beat before recording vocals so I have some extra computing power for the vocals themselves. I usually make a final mix of the beat including vocals to know where everything sits. How do you actually go and mix a beat before bouncing it for the vocal recording? Any info on this topic would be helpful. Thanks. Cheers, Nassim
hey Nassim, I also like to make a 2 track beat mix strictly for recording vocals to. I'll then import the beat multi tracks into the session later for the final mix. The 2 track beat mix is usually pretty simple - I go for a nice balanced mix and keep the master levels from clipping with a brickwall limiter at -1 dB. That's pretty much it!
can you describe how you send your sends and busses to tracks. Like How you route them to the vocals and such. We as a community would really appreciate it.
@@SeanDivine You're the greatest bro. I respect that. I'm rebuilding my studio right now and I plan to help educate people with these things too. I feel like it's needed instead of trying to keep everything secret. It'll only help to improve the standard of our music on a widespread level when more people are knowledgeable. Blessings from Jamaica bro. 🇯🇲
I wouldn't suggest doing any "mastering" for a 2 track beat mix beyond a brickwall limiter at just below 0dB TP. It depends though, if you're going to be doing the final mix with the beat multis later, it doesn't really matter
Loving your work please can you respond to my question I tweeted you the other day because I'm at a bit of a cross roads/folk in the road about what hardware to save up for & invest in next & I want to able to use the things your teaching but none of it is for iOS
Cool and useful video as usual. These are singing vocals tho...can you make a video on how to make real rap vocals sound like ear candy over say for example a classic hip hop/boom bap type beat? Or if you already have something like this, then could you point me in the right direction to find it? Cheers!
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When I do reverse reverbs, I reverse the vocal than slap a reverb on it and render it then reverse it back so it leads into the word, this works as well!
Lil alter boy, melodyne harmonies, microshift, eq filtering, vocal synth 2 and saturation are some of my favourite tools for vocal ear candy, adding depth and width to accentuate vocal lines and add interest and texture! Love the stutter tip, i usually use a delay in itself, but this i feel has more control, will definitely try it out in the next session, also what a great integration of tape stop built-in in a fade, seems like a logic..al thing to do, Ableton take notes..
That reverb reverse trick is an oldie but still a goodie I still use that!!! Dope tutorial bro !!!!
you work fast as hell man. it'd take me at least 20X the time you did all that and then some. I can't tell if i'm a slow worker or you just have that much more experience than me.
it comes with time, stay at it :) 🙌
Interesting, I saw this Ear Candy thing on a post yesterday and bang here's his Sean Videos on how to achieve it in a mix. How wonderful that is, Thanks Sean.
This really awesome 👏..Thumps up from Africa, Ghana and I will be glad if you could teach about how you used the reverb and delay on this song..Thanks 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Dope more Harmony tricks and tips pls
Thanks Sean I really appreciate all your tutorials. I’ve been recording for so many years and I still learn so many things from you.🙏 thank you
glad to hear that Zubaid, for real!
Sean Divine there so many good producers that will never share those tricks you teach us. 🙏
I NEVER THOUGHT YOU MIXED THIS SONG......... I LISTENED TO IT SO MANY TIMES , I FOLLOW THE DUDE ON IG
Sean Always Giving some Gems to us I m Sure we all are grateful!!! how many of us implement these on the go, I do lol thanks again!
You make great tutorials, thanks and keep up the great work
Brilliant tutorial, very practical tips. Thank you, Sean! :)
Thats sick bro.. Great tutorial..
Great stuff Sean. Thanks for sharing.
thanks ABC
Chopped vocal panning. I've not done that before. That was dope.
This reminds me of BT's Hip Hop Phenomenon ( at 4:13) if anyone hasn't heard that yet.
BT is the man! 👍
This man is saving out music careers one ☝️ video at a time
Thank you! i appreciate you taking the time to create this video.
My pleasure!
Really really helpful tips rather than buying plugs to do these things Sean. Thanks!
Appreciate you bro you are the GOAT
much love Tre! Everyone seeing this, check out his new project ⬆ 🙌
Thumbs up before watching the video. Always knowledge
SEAn the reverse reverb trick instead of doing bouncea nd having to press wav add to project and then naming it and bounce it...
theres is an option in the menu when u right click the clip u want to bounce that is BOUNCE IN PLACE (CTRL + B) on mac which will automatically bounce it in the project all you have to do is uncheck the box where it says bypass plugin effects, if it is checked
9 people must have missed the like button. LOL. Best wishes Sean, thanks for all the insight and tips!
lol thanks bro!
Nice tip bro.
Awesome tricks! Could you do a video of how to eq/mix terribly recorded vocals? Sometimes clients tend to send awful recordings that they don't wish to re record . Would be great to see your approach for this type of scenario
see what I can do 😎
More More More! Thank you
Do part 2!!
Dope! Love your content. Keep it up bro.
Superb Sean, thanks!
Great content, have you tried studio one? If no then maybe you should try a demo version.
TY
thanks for sharing
Thanks man! Legend
Word up! Great advice, thank you.
These tips will come in handy.
Sean your effin awesome bro ty for being you !!!
😊🙏
Your Are a Legend Brother! 💪🏾✊🏽🙏
🙏
Hello Sean my name is Sean keep up the Good work
thanks Sean!
Nice tutorial
Hi Sean, great tutorial as always, can you make a review of Diginoiz Subdive plugin? Thanks, cheers!
Always wanted my vocals to sound similar to this
great video and very informative 💯
Dope
Who hit the thumb down button, slap yourself. Great content bud!
thanks Angel!
FIREEEEE
the dude who made this song is fire bruh
Nice video
Goated!
This was super helpful bro!!! - Tree
Hey Sean, how you doing?
Congratulations on your work, I appreciate everything you do.
Could you make something clear for me? I have seen your videos and I still have the same trouble. When I'm mixing instruments and drums I have a bus for the instruments and another for the drums, what should I set on that bus?
I use compressors in each specific channel but I never know what to set on that bus for the drums (for example) to glue them together.
Thank you in advance,
Regards,
Skyc
hey Sky, why do you feel the need to use a bus compressor on the instruments / drums all the time? Not saying there's anything inherently wrong with this, although I wouldn't rely on it. Personally, not a big fan of bus compression on drums unless it's the right context, especially in the modern styles. It tends to kill the dynamics and punch.
@@SeanDivine Hey Sean, thank you for your reply! Everything I know about mixing I learned from you and I really thought that you used a bus for drums and another one for instruments, to give them more "power" when put together.
The best way is it to use them separately when we think it's necessary?
Regards
@@SkyC4600 I am not to far into it but a big one in my Opinion is you have to know where it is neceserry to compress and where it is not. My Approach is to not go with compression unless i feel it would be absolutly neceserry. Usually Vocals and Real Bass Guitars are likely to need it but an indicator is if your fader position for Leveling does not seem to work out, and your changing it constantly than you likely have found a track that could benefit of compression. I find myself often doing things that i think are appropriate (like not boosting low frequenzy content, or the tape saturation on everything phase) but it probably is a good idea to think twice about doing Stuff that you think you are supposed to do because somebody told you that you are supposed to do it. Do not give up on Advice but try to look for new input constantly, and if you are like me and you do not have to work for clients than use this freedome to change things up sometimes and to experiment with new Ideas to see if they are beneficial. Than after a (long&lovely&never ending) while you can go for cherry picking combining the nicest ideas you have found.
@@pianonoir997 Hey thank you very much ♥️
Break down this mix please the vocal sounds exactly what I want
is there a video when you mix those voices ??
Hi Sean, again great advice in this vid!!
I make beats and record vocals also in logic. Seeing this vid I'm considering to bounce a beat before recording vocals so I have some extra computing power for the vocals themselves. I usually make a final mix of the beat including vocals to know where everything sits.
How do you actually go and mix a beat before bouncing it for the vocal recording? Any info on this topic would be helpful. Thanks.
Cheers,
Nassim
hey Nassim, I also like to make a 2 track beat mix strictly for recording vocals to. I'll then import the beat multi tracks into the session later for the final mix. The 2 track beat mix is usually pretty simple - I go for a nice balanced mix and keep the master levels from clipping with a brickwall limiter at -1 dB. That's pretty much it!
@@SeanDivine thx man appreciate it ✌️
Auto filter does sick effects on the beat !
Seems as if that harmony tool added a bit of saturation also along with texture.
👍
How did I not know the tape stop effect like that? 8:10
can you describe how you send your sends and busses to tracks. Like How you route them to the vocals and such. We as a community would really appreciate it.
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@@SeanDivine yo thanks! im checking it out right now
Can you do more of these please? With more tricks?
will see what I can do!
@@SeanDivine You're the greatest bro. I respect that. I'm rebuilding my studio right now and I plan to help educate people with these things too. I feel like it's needed instead of trying to keep everything secret. It'll only help to improve the standard of our music on a widespread level when more people are knowledgeable. Blessings from Jamaica bro. 🇯🇲
Damn mannn
Yes please break down this whole mix from scratch willing to even pay for the tutorial
I'll see what I can do :)
@@SeanDivine please bro these vocals is what I'm after
@@SeanDivine been listening to it constantly it's what I exactly need
I havent stopped coming back to this video bro please full mix breakdown
Sean Divine what can u do a year later?
Quick question: Should I use a limiter or mastering chain on my beats for artists to record on? If so, -3 to -6db of headroom right?
I wouldn't suggest doing any "mastering" for a 2 track beat mix beyond a brickwall limiter at just below 0dB TP. It depends though, if you're going to be doing the final mix with the beat multis later, it doesn't really matter
Loving your work please can you respond to my question I tweeted you the other day because I'm at a bit of a cross roads/folk in the road about what hardware to save up for & invest in next & I want to able to use the things your teaching but none of it is for iOS
Can we see how you mix that track
Cool and useful video as usual. These are singing vocals tho...can you make a video on how to make real rap vocals sound like ear candy over say for example a classic hip hop/boom bap type beat? Or if you already have something like this, then could you point me in the right direction to find it? Cheers!
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Show how you mix 808s
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ANYONE know HOW you can REVERSE the audio event in CUBASE? thx
What DAW do you use?
logic pro
Speak of the devil. Been looking for this
Ear candy for R&B next? 👀👂🏼
see what I can do!
Old tricks